 The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - الصفحة 213بواسطة Alexander Pope - 1891عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sound ing shore, 368 The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar....When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : VARIATIONS. Vet. 390. Ed. 1. A vile conceit in pompous... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...blows, and the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; but when loud surges lash the sounding shore, the hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar....When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, the line too labours, and the words move slow; 371 not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, flies... | |
 | 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar....When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to thiow, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to thiow, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...blows, and the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; but when loud surges lash the sounding shore, Ae hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar....When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, Ihe line too labours, and the words move slow; 371 not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, flies... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. [throw. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to The line too labours, and the words move slow, Not so, when swift Camilla scours tlieplain,[maia Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timotheus'" various lays... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...stream in smoother numbers flrws : But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough Terse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...hoarse, rough terse should like the torrent row. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skimt along the main. The beautiful Distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines,... | |
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